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There’s this voter who was born in Mangalore and he has lots of BJP “karyakarta” friends. Good fellows who do the booth management for the world’s largest-richest political party. The commitment of such people wins elections. But, this time in Karnataka, the BJP did not have the confidence that booth management alone would deliver to them the goods.

The decision by the Union government to tie local gas prices to international prices comes at a time when global prices are on a downward trend and this is great news for consumers who have hitherto been at the receiving end of higher prices as well as their administration.

New Delhi: It was India day at the World Boxing Championship as Deepak Bhoria (51kg), Hussamuddin (57kg) and Nishant Dev (71kg) assured at least a bronze medal each by reaching the semi-finals in their respective categories in the tournament in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Hockey India on Wednesday named defender Preeti to lead the 18-member Junior Women’s Team for the Jr Asia Cup scheduled to played from 2nd June in Kakamigahara, Japan. Forward Deepika will be the vice-captain.

The booming black marketing of fertilizers in India has been a persistent problem that has worsened in recent years, on account of rising global prices of fertilizers, the supply disruptions during the pandemic, increased demand from the farmers, shortage for fertilizer, and the gap between the prices of subsidized fertilisers and that is available in the open market. Moreover, the recent seizure of 70,000 bags of spurious urea from Gujarat, Kerala, Haryana, Rajasthan and Karnataka shows that illegal business of spurious fertilizers in the country is also being carried out at massive scale.

News as reported in the Nav Bharat Times dated 12 April 2023, referring to a post in which the mother of a child had mentioned that her daughter came home today crying asked me ‘are we Muslims so dirty’? This is after her class fellow in the 6th class spat on her face after the latter told her that she belongs to Muslim religion. This is a matter of great worry and is a reflection of what is being constantly discussed in some homes and fed into the children’s mind. Children of that age have no such concept of religious differences, least to talk about hating someone on the basis of religion, caste, creed, ethnicity or gender. But constant negative discussions have a long term impression on the developing mind of the child. Such observations were also made after the riots in Gujarat.

Conversational niceties are adhered to and appropriate body language follows when representatives of nations meet even though adversarial relations exist between them. But the recently concluded Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meet at Goa last week was an exception where foreign minister of India S Jaishankar and his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari did not mask their feelings.

New Delhi: Continuing with their winning ways Deepak Bhoria (51kg) and Nishant Dev (71kg) put up another scintillating display as they stormed into the quarter-finals World Boxing Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Versatile midfielder Hardik Singh says his elevation as vice-captain of the National hockey team is due to his consistent hard work ," I was working hard for the last three to four years and my hard work paid off.”

Accusing the central and state governments of helping militant outfits to grow in the state of strife-torn northeastern state of Manipur on the pretext of peace process, the People’s Alliance for Peace and Progress (PAPPM), Manipur said and demanded both the governments to immediately scrap the agreement.